The Village of Waterloo
| The Village of Waterloo | |
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| Artist | George Jones |
| Year | 1821 |
| Type | Oil on panel, history painting |
| Dimensions | 49.5 cm × 62.1 cm (19.5 in × 24.4 in) |
| Location | National Army Museum, London |
The Village of Waterloo is an 1821 history painting by the English artist George Jones.[1][2] It has the longer subtitle With Travellers Purchasing the Relics That Were Found in the Field of Battle, 1815
It shows a scene in the village of Waterloo In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo during the Hundred Days campaign. Villagers are selling souvenirs of the campaign to a Highland soldier and tourists who have arrived by coach from Brussels. Meanwhile, a Prussian offers items to a mounted hussar. All have presumably been looted from corpses on the battlefield. Meanwhile, a cart filled with redcoated British bodies can be seen on the left while a group of lancers on horseback are clustered around an inn on the right.[3]
Jones, a captain in the militia, visited the scene soon after the battle and made sketches. The battlefield became a major tourist destination over subsequent decades.[4] It was part of cluster of paintings depicting the Waterloo Campaign produced around this time including David Wilkie's Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch [5] Today it is in the collection of the National Army Museum in London.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Village of Waterloo (with travellers purchasing the relics that were found in the field of battle), 1815 | Art UK". artuk.org.
- ^ Reynolds p.66
- ^ a b https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1989-03-24-1
- ^ Reynolds p.43-44
- ^ Tromans p.327
Bibliography
[edit]- Buck, Pamela. Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs. University of Delaware Press, 2004.
- Reynolds, Luke. Who Owned Waterloo?: Battle, Memory, and Myth in British History, 1815–1852. Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Tromans, Nicholas. David Wilkie: The People's Painter. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
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